This will be an on-going series on how you can make up your film school education just by watching DVD’s. I’m going to randomly declare 1967 as the cut-off point between the “classic” age of the studio system and the beginning of the “modern” age of film-making. Of course, the studio system was already pretty [...]

So I was waiting for my passport photos to be developed at Walgreen’s yesterday. While kicking it at the magazine rack (does Oprah have an insatiable ego or what?) I was trying to swallow paying out 10 bones for a copy of the Official U.S. Playstation magazine and another $5 for a copy of Men’s [...]

There apparently is no in-between feelings for the newly released Apple TV. It’s love or hate and not much in-between. This and the iPhone seem to enrage the same passions. For people who look over the feature and decide it’s not for them can’t just let it go at that. They have to write out [...]

As someone who will eat anything that screams NEW – I had to try out the Hostess 100-calorie pack cupcakes – the mini version. I had pretty low expectations and they even failed that. If you put a little frosting on an oreo, that’s pretty much the size of each one. You get three in [...]

Occasionally the web reveals a real gem. Months ago I stumbled across this web site based in Germany that produces electron microscopy photos of things on the micron level. Want to see what a dust mite really looks like? Or why people with hay fever honk so much? Wanna dig what those tiny little flecks [...]

Guess the MPAA backed down and gave it an R – I’m all for adults watching whatever adults wanna watch but maybe it’s time for a new rating system – LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE got an R-rating for goober sake … In Grindhouse, apparently ‘a man eats a baby.’ Again, I’m not for censorship but perhaps [...]

While there are some other choices, the biggest two on the block are Netflix & Blockbuster so how do they stack up? It’s easy – you click on some choices, give them a credit card and sit back and wait by your mailbox. in a couple days (especially if you live in a major metro [...]

So P&G wins a case against some boneheaded Amway Distributors (see: lying sack of weasels willing to lie to their dying grandmothers to place another brick in their crumbling, stunted pyramids) for spreading rumors about P&G being part of the Church of Satan. It took 12 years of litigation which means that both entities have [...]

For those in CalNeva – you know you get a hankerin’ every few days for one of the great burgers of America – an In-n-Out … instead of doing real work today, we worked hard to update the Mogopop add-on for your iPod. In-n-Out burgers listed by county, state or city. Enjoy!

So Biz 2.0 has a top 10 cool gadget article up here. By first blush (heh), it seems like something that should be offered in one of the aging Sharper Image stores or an in-flight magalog. But…some dang designer made it look cool. Must stop the Troglodytic impulse to buy now….ergk! The name could use [...]